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Updated: August 23, 2024
It was a stone-flagged room upon the second floor, with a bed in a recess for him, and two smaller pallets on the other side, on which Aylward and Hordle John were already snoring. Alleyne had knelt down to his evening orisons, when there came a tap at his door, and Ford entered with a small lamp in his hand.
Cooper and I knew how it would be well enough when Miss Bilson engaged Lizzie Trant and Mr. Hordle said the same. But it wasn't one atom of use for us to speak. The Miss Minetts recommended the girl so there was the finish of it. And that's at the bottom of your being kept waiting the best part of a hour for your tea like this, Miss."
So, alternately beating and beaten, they made their dolorous way through the beautiful woods and under the amber arches of the fading beech-trees, where the calm strength and majesty of Nature might serve to rebuke the foolish energies and misspent strivings of mankind. Such a spectacle was new to Hordle John or to Alleyne Edricson; but the archer treated it lightly, as a common matter enough.
She was self-forgetful, self-possessed, the exalted touch of a pure devotion upon her. "I have been with my brother Charles," she began, addressing them both. "I happened to see Hordle coming from the library and I put off dinner. I thought, darling" this to Damaris, with a becoming hint of deference "I might do so. I gathered that Charles that your father wished it. He has not been feeling well."
Did more than that walked out into the hall and to his own rooms, opening off the corridor. In the offices a bell tinkled. Theresa scrambled on to her feet, just as Hordle, in response to its summons, arrived at the sitting-room door. "Did you ring, Miss?" he asked grudgingly. Less than ever was she in favour with the servants' hall to-night.
Cooper remarked to an audience of Hordle and Mary Fisher, reinforced by the Napoleonic Patch and his wife who happened to have looked in from the stables after supper some freedom of speech being permissible, thanks to the under-servants' relegation to the kitchen. "I never could see she was any class myself. But the airs and graces she'd give herself!
It was a grip that, between men of equal strength, would mean a fall; but Hordle John tore him off from him as he might a rat, and hurled him across the room, so that his head cracked up against the wooden wall. "Ma foi!" cried the bowman, passing his fingers through his curls, "you were not far from the feather-bed then, mon gar. A little more and this good hostel would have a new window."
The luckless limner, thus suddenly brought out from his dreams, sat up with a piercing yell, while Hordle John bounded back into the circle almost as rapidly as he had left it. "One more fall, by all the saints!" he cried, throwing out his arms. "Not I," quoth the archer, pulling on his clothes, "I have come well out of the business. I would sooner wrestle with the great bear of Navarre."
Couldst not shoot a bolt down any street of Bordeaux, I warrant, but you would pink archer, squire, or knight. There are more breastplates than gaberdines to be seen, I promise you." "And where got you all these pretty things?" asked Hordle John, pointing at the heap in the corner. "Where there is as much more waiting for any brave lad to pick it up.
To-day neither humour nor reserve were in evidence, but a harassed and hunted look altogether surprising to Miss Verity. He stared at her, stared past her along the drive, before attempting to usher her into the hall and relieve her of her umbrella and her cloak. "Sir Charles doesn't expect me, Hordle," she said. "But hearing Miss Damaris was unwell I came over from Paulton Lacy at once."
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